在Rails的一个控制器中使用私有和受保护的方法

Question

All the articles say about the difference between private and protected methods, however there's no clearance about using it.

So if code something like:

private
  def my_method
    #some code
  end

Does private affect only the my_method or everything below?

UPDATE: And if affects everything what if I want to use protected methods as well? If I code below my_method:

protected
  def another_method
    #some code
  end

Does it mean that private method has ended and protected methods section has started?

Answer 1

To simply answer your question: yes, when you have the following code:

private
  ....

protected
  ....

Then private stops where protected begins.